This entry is long overdue. Marisa turned one on Oct 7.It's amazing how quickly her first year went by (with the packing, moving, traveling, adapting, etc.). Still, watching her achieve her milestones has been and is still extremely fascinating. It never gets old, even when we've seen it before.
Marisa started walking at 11.5 months old. Now at 13 months, she's running. Once the passive one, she now knows how to exert her will, sometimes a little too loudly (thanks to the example shown by her older sister *sigh!*). Just several days ago, she unexpectedly said "real" words, like "apple" or "Elmo" and stunned us all! Like I said, it never gets old.
Dancing seems to be a passion at this stage. Her favorite tunes are in the Mary Poppins soundtrack, and more recently in tourism TV commercials of exotic places like Montenegro, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. I think she likes the ethnic drum rhythms. This morning, she did some fancy footwork that looked like salsa to a South African commercial on CNN! I rolled on the floor laughing when I should have grabbed my videocam instead!
It's amazing... the places she's been before she turned one. Berlin is a good example. More on that in another entry!
2 comments:
wah, so fast, she is 1 year old now. she looks so different, pretty.
hi yvonne, my eldest daughter ~ Leonica know how to walk when she's 18th mths.. quite slow right... & my 2nd daughter now 9 mths old.. hope she can walk like Marisa when she turn 1 !!
~ Marie ~
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